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Schwa/ə/

Schwa is the name for the most common sound in English. It is a weak, unstressed sound and it occurs in many words. It is often the sound in grammar words such as articles and prepositions.


Getting the schwa sound correct is a good way of making your pronunciation more accurate and natural.

Listen to some examples

Click on the sound and you'll also watch a video about this sound

Irregular Verbs

Vowels, diphthongs,consonants.

1 Vowels
2 Diphthongs
3 Consonants
4 More consonants
Pronunciation 5050
Stress Monsters

The alphabet

http://evaeaston.com/pr/alphabet.html

Listen and match 26 letters

http://www.telefonica.net/web2/eseducativa/listen00/alphabet_listen/jigsound1.swf

The sound /ə/

Watch this video about this sound

Pronunciation of the "-ed" ending

Click here to practise the pronunciation of the ed ending it is either /d/, /t/ or /id/.
You can also practise on the following link. Although the phonetic transcription is not very accurate I think it will be useful for you to listen how to pronounce the verbs .
You can also do this quizz